The Parent Trap (1961)

G05/13/1961Comedy, Family, Romance2h 9m
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Caught in a merry marital mix-up!

Overview

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Hayley Mills

    Susan Evers / Sharon McKendrick

  2. Cast 1

    Maureen O'Hara

    Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick

  3. Cast 1

    Brian Keith

    Mitch Evers

  4. Cast 1

    Charles Ruggles

    Charles McKendrick

  5. Cast 1

    Cathleen Nesbitt

    Louise McKendrick

  6. Cast 1

    Una Merkel

    Verbena

  7. Cast 1

    Joanna Barnes

    Vicky Robinson

  8. Cast 1

    Linda Watkins

    Edna Robinson

  9. Cast 1

    Crahan Denton

    Hecky

Hayley Mills is pretty skilful in this spirited effort from David Swift. She plays posh sister "Sharon" and not so posh sibling "Susan" who meet at one of those summer camps that parents offload their unwanted children to during the long holidays. Needless to say, they cannot stand one another and after causing havoc for just about everyone else, are forced into isolation. It is during this confinement that things start to thaw between them and they realise they are twins - separated at birth when their parents divorced. They concoct a cunning wheeze - the wrong sister will go home to the wron...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget-

Revenue $29,650,385.00

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